The CENSUS HISTORY PROJECT focuses on the exploration, extraction, and analysis of U.S. Census data for further research purposes. Our users group takes on a critical historical approach to understanding population-level data on the United States, the methods used to gather the data, and the measures applied to explore, extract, and analyze the data.
Images from the U.S. Census Bureau and the California African American Museum1.
group: census-users
initiated: fall 2022
Funding for this project is provided by Data.org and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Ancillary files:
api.R
helps new users generate and store a US Census API
key.
You should never share your Census API key. Follow the steps below:
Set up an environment variable to hold your api key with
usethis::edit_r_environ()
Transfer information into .Renviron (pop-up
file)
CENSUS_API_KEY='your_api_key' into the
.Renviron fileInsert your census API key via
Sys.getenv("CENSUS_API_KEY")